Subject: jerry, avert your eyes...
Date: 08 Aug 1999 12:44:31 GMT
From: digdescyan@aol.comoc.loa (art guerrilla)
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 CIABASE and "The CIA, Past, Present and Future, Part II"

   The primary news re the Central Intelligence Agency in early
1994 was the discovery and arrest of Aldrich Ames as a spy for
Russia.  The worst intelligence nightmare come true. I have not
been surprised by the CIA's ability to rise Phoenix-like from the
ashes of its many covert action and intelligence disasters - but
will it survive the Aldrich Ames debacle?  The question is
academic, for if the CIA does not survive some new or
re-designed intelligence agency will rise to take its role; e.g.,
implementing policy while supplying "intelligence" to justify
policy goals.  (Already the commission to investigate the
intelligence community's deficiencies -- the Warner/Aspin
Commission has laid out the ground rules and will narrowly
focus on non-substantive issues.)

   As early as 1951, Walter "Beetle" Smith, director of the CIA
under Truman, said covert action was distracting CIA from
gathering and analysis of intelligence and asked whether the
Agency would continue as an intelligence agency or had become a
"cold war department."  Allen Dulles, the director under
Eisenhower, answered the question and chose the latter path and
in some years spent up to eighty percent of the CIA's budget on
covert operations. Covert dominance persisted until the
Congressional investigations of the mid-1970s.  Over the years
the Agency increased expenditures for technical collection
systems but CIA-supplied budget figures consistently understate
its covert action costs.

    For example, during the Afghanistan war the covert budget
was nearly one billion dollars in one year, a figure openly
discussed in Congress.  At the same time the CIA claimed it spent
only three percent of its money for covert operations.  Those
figures reflect an impossibly high amount but demonstrate how
the CIA deceives the American people about the size and expense
of its covert operations.

   The CIA continues its role as the maker or breaker of
governments while in the catbird seat of providing supportive
intelligence.  Critics of the Agency's egregious intelligence
miss the point, its intelligence is designed to fail -- it must
produce politicized intelligence -- that is its role, to provide
information to justify policy.  Occasionally presidents need
real intelligence but the infrastructure is so distorted by this
requirement, and so bloated by bureaucrats, that it is incapable
of providing accurate, unbiased information.  An insiders'
book, "Silent Warfare: Understanding the World of Intelligence,"
by Abram N. Shulsky, argues that seeking intelligence to support
policy is a legitimate task of the CIA.

   The move to transfer or augment or conceal the CIA's role in
covert operations began over ten years ago with creation of the
National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and later with the
establishment of the Joint Special Forces Command.
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) also play a role in
foreign policy.

   The Joint Special Forces Command assumes or supplements the
Agency's role in paramilitary operations; low intensity
conflicts; strategic reconnaissance; unconventional warfare,
including covert or clandestine operations, subversion,
sabotage, intelligence collection, and, escape and evasion;
psychological operations, counterterrorism, and others.
(Special Forces also collect demographic information on
indigenous populations - a task similar to the much disputed
"Project Camelot," of the 1960s).

   Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) also appear to
to be involved in CIA covert actions. The degree to which they
serve as cover for CIA operations, funding, or personnel
is not known. The book, "Holy War, Holy Victory," one of the
few substantive books on covert action in Pakistan and
Afghanistan in the 1980s, says European NGOs that sprung up
around CIA operations were so intertwined with CIA it was
impossible to separate them.

   The Clinton Administration pushes the theme of promoting
democracy around the world. In October 1994, the administration
confirmed its worldwide program of intervention via Morton
Halperin, former head of the ACLU in D.C., who is now special
assistant to the president and senior director for democracy at
the National Security Council.  Halperin said, "We divide the
world in two, those countries who choose democracy, we
help....in those who do not choose it, we create conditions
where they will choose it." This statement indicates, of course,
the CIA, or whatever, will continue the eternal, never-changing
role of subverting other governments while reporting only
policy-supportive intelligence.

   The United States "promotes democracy" in the less accessible,
restricted societies -- Third World countries and the former
Soviet States.  The current democracy-promoting operations
follow a pattern. The Administration, by influencing established
human rights organizations and/or by creating new human rights
groups, 12 in Africa alone, declares a country to be in
violation of human rights. Propaganda damns these miscreants.
Once a government has been appropriately demonized -- diplomatic,
political, propaganda, media operations and economic measures
are applied to force the target country to honor human rights.

   When the target nation lessens or abolishes political
restrictions, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the
United States Information Agency (USIA), the government-backed
and guided Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), the
International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Overseas Private
Investment Corporation (OPIC), the Export-Import Bank, the State
Department, the Agency for International Development (AID), and
the CIA all begin overt or covert operations to modify or
replace governing authority.  When these methods fail, we have
the Joint Special Forces Command to fight the "insurgency,"
with "counterinsurgency" operations.

   NED is the primary overt vehicle for political operations --
in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, Eastern Europe
and in the former states of the USSR.  NED subsidizes and
influences elections, political parties, think tanks, academia,
business groups, book publishers, media, and labor, religious,
women's, and youth organizations.  NED assumed this role from CIA
beginning in 1983, and uses many of the same institutions but
operates more openly.  While NED is in the open drawing all the
attention, it is in part a smoke screen for operations by
other organizations. As proof we cite a government study
that states the United States through AID and USIA, "and other
agencies," is a huge and primary source of funding for democracy
promotion programs.

   An explicit demonstration of all of these this processes
was revealed recently when Russia's Federal Counterintelligence
Service reported in early 1995, that American research centers,
institutes and aid organizations, were in fact spying on Russia
and working to undermine it as a competitor to the U.S. "Through
their special services [CIA] and scientific centers, the U.S.
is penetrating deeply into all spheres of our country's life,
occupying strategic positions and influencing the development of
political and economic processes in Russia....The use of
scientific centers in intelligence and sabotage activities
against Russia acquires a total character."

   The report named the Soros Foundation and dozens of other U.S.
organizations that it says are using Russia's open atmosphere to
engage in subversive activity designed to steal secrets or
restrain Russia as a competitor to the "one and only superpower."

   The report names groups from Harvard, Columbia and Duke
Universities and their involvement in the December 1993
parliamentary elections. The university groups organized large
polling samples and asked many detailed questions.  Comment:
This sort of activity was part of the social conditioning
programming of the notorious Project Camelot, a Pentagon
counterinsurgency project that envisioned an alliance of the
Pentagon and the academic community on a scale similar to the
Manhattan project. Camelot was used in Chile in the sixties
but the resulting outcry forced its cancellation.

   Another good example of U.S. interference is China.
Prior to the Tiananmen Square incident, NED maintained
two offices inside China and conducted regular seminars on
Democracy.  NED also sponsored various Chinese writers and
publications. Probably NED or CIA, recruited numerous Chinese
students studying in the United States; and, when Tiananmen
Square erupted, either sent of helped fax thousands of letters
to recipients in China, inflamed opinion via the Voice of
America; and, sheltered a leading dissident in the U.S. Embassy -
which also arranged for many dissidents to flee China.  NED
continues to support Chinese activists and awards Tiananmen's
"Goddess of Democracy," to noted dissidents of all nations.

   In the early part of 1994, the United States tried to force
the Chinese to allow U.S.-backed Chinese and Tibetan activists
freer reign in exchange for continuation of the Most Favored
Nation (MFN) trade status and called China a violator of human
rights.  (In May 1994, Chinese police detained four members of
a local Association for Human Rights as one of their number
boarded a flight for the United States).  In late May 1994,
Clinton, bowing to pressure from business interests, separated
human rights from China's Most Favored Nation (MFN) trade status.

   The other more prominent NED operations in 1993 and early 1994
in Asia, were Vietnam and Burma.  In the case of Burma, the
Administration announced a diplomatic campaign in March 1994,
to isolate the Burmese government while proclaiming we were
considering economic sanctions to force Burma to improve its
human rights.  Some of the activities sponsored in Burma by
NED as listed in NED's 1993 annual report, include the Democratic
Voice of Burma, the National League for Democracy/Liberated Area;
the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB);
and, the Federation of Trade Unions of Burma.

   We continue operations to promote democracy in Vietnam.
Such operations first began in the early 1950s, and became
the Vietnam War.  As a tragic footnote to history, the
Vietnamese Government in mid-June 1994, announced their death toll:
three million people - one million North Vietnamese and 2 million
soldiers and civilians of the South. In addition more than 4
million sustained injuries and over 2 million people were
made invalids.

   There appears to be a great deal of ambiguity on the part of
domestic political ideologies as to whether promoting democracy
is good or bad, should be condoned or condemned, or supported
or opposed selectively.  In South Africa, the former Soviet
Republics, Somalia, Bosnia, Haiti, China, Burma, and some other
countries - there is support, even pressure, for U.S.
interference, but in other countries, many object to the U.S.
role.  In my experience with, and research on the CIA, the
majority of United States political operations have had
disastrous consequences for the target countries and in many
cases, also for the United States.

   Where the U.S. has operated to change governments, it
frequently replaced popular administrations with military
dictatorships, or with elected governments that fronted for
military rule, or with very conservative civilian rule.
>From Iran in 1953, to the 1994 election in El Salvador -
CIABASE records dozens of examples of the tragic consequences
of U.S. intervention.

Ralph McGehee
CIABASE

apologies to mr mcgehee for -accidently- misspelling name in
last post...
(usually i mangle spellings on purpose, don't i samiam...)

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